Each year, the
Tuscola Kiwanis Club selects at least two graduating
high school seniors for a $1,000 scholarship each. Candidates
submit an application to the club, and a sub-committee reviews
and selects the winners. The winners
are announced during the Honors Night celebration at the high school.

Previous winners:

Year

Winners

Award

2018

Conner Baer

Key Club Member

$1,000

Sydney Hoel

Key Club Member

$1,000

Miah Phillips

Key Club Member

$1,000

Grace Snider

Key Club Member

$1,000

2017

Ashley Mattingly

Key Club Member

$1,000

Alexis Nau

Key Club Member

$1,000

Cassidy Westjohn

Key Club Member

$1,000

Josiah Lemay

$1,000

2016

Taylor Mattingly

Key Club Member

$1,000

Brianne Voyles

Key Club Member

$1,000

Courtney Brewer

Key Club Member

$1,000

Nick Bates

$1,000

2015

Alli Moss

Key Club Member

$1,000

Grace Hardwick

$1,000

Dakota Little

$1,000

Anna Heinz

$1,000

2014

Katie O'Hearn

Key Club Member

$1,000

Victoria Price

$1,000

Tucker Robinson

$1,000

Tristan Williams

$1,000

2013

Mackenzie Seip

Key Club Member

$1,000

Rebecca Maree

$1,000

Kristin Dickens

$1,000

Daniel Yoakum

$1,000

2012

Leslie Borries

Key Club Member

$750

David Frye

Key Club Member

$750

Kayce Patton

Key Club Member

$750

2011

Claudia Christy

Key Club Member

$750

Lydia Swinford

Key Club Member

$750

Lexi Wasiloski

Key Club Member

$750

2010

Anna Frye

Key Club Member

$750

Rachael Sapp

$750

Taylor Turner

Key Club Member

$750

2009

Mariah Brookins

Courtney Day

$750

Michael Ovca

Kelsey Phipps

$750

2008

Alyssa Gordon

Kaela Kroenung

$500

Elizabeth Otto

Matthew Whittington

$500

2007

Rebecca Endres

Erin Riley

$500

2006

Annie Sutherland

Carly McCrory

$500

2005

Dusty Hawkins

Kristen Ochs

$500

2004

Megan Watts

Brittany MacGibbon

$250

2003

Nicole Corum

Brad Opperman

$250

2002

Evan Simpson

Angie Otto

$250

2001

Erica Hall

April Richardson

$250

2000

Doug Opperman

Mike Woods

$250

1999

Kyli Payne

Lindsay Snider

$250

Note: One of the 2013 scholarships was
funded by donations in memory of long-time Kiwanian Clarice Hausman. The
2013 Key Club scholarship was funded by donations from Janet Cox, Gary Weber and
David & Janet Butler.

KEY CLUB

Tuscola Community High School

The Tuscola Kiwanis
Club sponsors a Key Club at the Tuscola Community High
School. There are two co-advisors from our Kiwanis Club
and a faculty advisor, Darcey Helmick.

Key Club is the oldest
and largest service program for high school students. What
makes Key Club so successful is the fact that it is a
student-led organization that teaches leadership through
serving their community and others. As members of the
Kiwanis International family, Key Club members build
themselves as they build their schools and communities.

Today, Key Club exists on more than 5,000 high school
campuses, primarily in the United States and Canada. The
organization offers a wide range of opportunities to its
members:

Leadership development

Vocational guidance

College scholarships

Subscription to the Key Club magazine

Service-learning

Personal enrichment

The Key Club motto is “Caring: Our Way of
Life.” Their mission statement is: “Key Club is an
international student-led organization which provides its
members with opportunities to provide service, build
character and develop leadership.” Their vision is: “To
develop competent, capable, and caring leaders through the
vehicle of service.”

Key Club membership is open to high school
students who wish to provide service to their school,
community and others. Membership provides opportunities
for leadership development and scholarships. Every club
elects its own officers annually - a president,
vice-president, secretary, treasurer and editor. Every Key
Club also has the authority to select its own service
projects.

Builders Club

Builders Club is the largest service
organization for middle school and junior high students,
with more than 45,000 members worldwide.

Members learn to work together and develop servant-leaders
skills as they serve their school and community. In
partnership with UNICEF and March of Dimes, the clubs are
able to expand their outreach to babies and children of the
world.

Motto

Building leaders

Objects

To provide opportunities for working together in
service to school and community.

To develop leadership potential.

To foster the development of strong moral character.

To encourage loyalty to school, community and nation.

Vision

To develop competent, capable, caring leaders through the
vehicle of service.

Mission

Builders Club is an international student-led organization
providing members with opportunities to perform service,
build character and develop leadership.

Corevalues

Character
building: The ability to do the right thing,
even when it might be the unpopular choice.

Leadership:
The ability to listen, communicate, serve and guide
others.

Inclusiveness:
Accepting and welcoming differences in other people.

Caring:
The act of being concerned about or interested in other
people or situations.

Pledge

"I pledge on my honor to uphold the objects of Builders
Club. To better my school, my community, my nation, and
myself. To aid those in need while enhancing leadership
capabilities, and to encourage the fellowship of all
mankind."

K-Kids
is the youngest and fastest
growing service organization for elementary students worldwide.
These clubs are ideally suited for students in grades 1 through 5
(ages 6 to 12).

K-Kids is a
"student-led" community-service organization, which operates under
school regulations and draws its members from the student body.

The K-Kids'
pledge:

"As a K-Kid, I promise
to serve my neighborhood and my school; I will show respect toward
my environment; and I will try to make the world a better place in
which to live."

The K-Kids' motto is
"We Build," and its objectives are:

To provide
opportunities for working together in service to school and
community.

To develop
leadership potential.

To foster and
development of strong moral character.

To encourage loyalty
to school, community, and nation.

During the school
year, Tuscola K-Kids participate in community and world-wide
projects. Previous projects have included donating and
planting a tree at their school, raising money for Chernobyl
children and washing teachers' cars during Teacher Appreciation
Week.

Tuscola Kiwanis club recognizes and thanks the Tuscola K-Kids with
certificates and gifts. Club members host wiener/marshmallow
roasts and ice cream parties during the school years for the K-Kids.

"BUG"

"BUG" is a
program that gives students a goal of improving their grades.
East Prairie Elementary School and the Tuscola Kiwanis have teamed
up to administer and support this very worthwhile effort.
Students receive awards for making improvements in their grades.

1st time
winners receive a "BUG" certificate and button. They also
receive a congratulatory postcard from a Kiwanis member and their
name in the Tuscola newspapers.

2nd time
winners receive a "BUG" certificate and pencil. They also
receive a congratulatory postcard and phone call from a Kiwanis
member and their name in the Tuscola newspapers.

3rd time
winners receive a "BUG" certificate. They also get treated
to a lunch with the Kiwanians and a postcard and phone call.
Their name also appears in the Tuscola newspapers.

Making Trauma Dolls
for Kids in Need

Trauma dolls
are hand-made by club members for children.

Currently, the club provides our
trauma dolls to Carle ER and the Pediatric ward of the
Carle Hospital in Urbana. Occasionally we provide
dolls as needed to the Douglas County ambulance services
and the Tuscola Fire Department.

These dolls serve two purposes:

1) To comfort
children whose lives have much turmoil.

2)
To provide enjoyment and purpose to club members who get together to make the dolls for
this good cause.

Our last workshop met at the Douglas
County Museum where we enjoyed a potluck dinner before
making trauma dolls. A single workshop usually completes
80-90 dolls.

Please join us for food, fun and fellowship with other Kiwanians when the next workshop is announced.

Each October, the
Illinois-Eastern Iowa District Governor presents each new Division
Lt. Governor with a handsome, personalized gavel. The Lt.
Governor sets up a schedule for the clubs in his or her division to
pass the gavel from club to club within twelve months. The
purpose is to generate Interclub visits. The gavel must be
delivered in some unique way, and finally returns to the lieutenant
governor before the end of his or her term.

Great creativity
or culinary expertise is appreciated when presenting the traveling
gavel. Clubs have presented the gavel with customized chocolate and
caramel gavels, built into a bird house packed with birdseed, frozen
in a block of ice, suspended in a pan of lime Jell-O, dropped from
an airplane in a bag of flour, and buried in a basket of Easter
eggs. Clubs enjoy this tradition both for the creative
ideas and the opportunity to enjoy the delivery!

Meeting With Other Kiwanians

An Outing

It was a rainy, dreary evening on
October 2005, when four brave souls assembled for a monthly
experience.

They were about to
embark on an adventure of meeting people in a distant city and
experiencing new people belonging to the same family.

It rained during
their entire journey on Route 36 West, it rained during the
maneuvering through the city of Decatur and it continued to rain on
the northern stretch of Route 51.

Fortunately, our
four brave souls had a great gps (global positioning system) in the
person of their own poet laureate who seemed to know where they were
going.

They finally
arrived at a little building in Clinton, Illinois, marked with our
family emblem. Moving quickly from car to building, trying to
avoid the water filled pot-holes, they made it safely inside.
The room seemed to be ready for an interesting meeting with
placemats announcing projects, fundraising proposals and activities
for the coming year.

As it happened,
they were not the only visitors this night for these Clinton family
members. There was another family group from Decatur
delivering a “traveling gavel” to this family branch. In this
particular delivery, the gavel was wrapped in layers and layers of
duct tape so it took the president, who had to unwrap it, quite some
time.

The “traveling
gavel” is like any gavel that a president of a family club would use
to open and close a family meeting. However, the “traveling
gavel” is moved from club to club (family to family) so that all the
club families in a district receive it every year, and each club
must deliver it to the next club as assigned by the district.

Each club tries to
make their delivery, with the gavel wrapped in an innovative way, so
that it is fun and difficult to get to it.

By visiting the
other clubs in their district, and also in other districts, we meet
other members of our KIWANIS family, and share ideas about projects
and fundraising activities.

The best way to do
this is to sign up for an inter-club meeting!

TUSCOLA KIWANIS CLUB

THE friendliest
club (so proclaimed by others; not our brag)

Submitted by Ed
Wachala

Helping Out Other Worthwhile Causes

Frequently, members volunteer
their time to help the community with other activities.